The Perceived Impacts of a Federal Minority-Serving Institution Grant on Understanding and Serving Students

• In Event: Race Matters: Higher Ed Policy, MSIs, and Racially Marginalized Demographics

Abstract

The federal Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI; otherwise known as AAPI-serving institution) grant provides opportunities for student initiatives that focus on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and low-income students to develop. This qualitative case study aimed to understand how the federal AANAPISI funding had driven new, broader, and deeper insights into understanding and serving students. The findings demonstrate institutional agents’ changes in understandings as a result of the AANAPISI grant with a focus on: 1) the unique educational needs and challenge of AAPI students, 2) serving both AAPI and non-AAPI students at an AAPI-serving community college, and 3) sustaining and expanding the current and future student initiatives on campus after the grant ends.

Author

• Victoria Kim, The University of Texas at Austin